Dullard of daura aka brainless brain dead.

Tunde Bakare's case is worse than any other G.O and more confession is yet to come from him,I still hold him responsible for been the first person to call GEJ a drunk fishermen, I don't know the kind of bible that this man reads that says disrespect and disregard those in authority he was used by Muhammadu Buhari and to achieve his selfish aim he had to bring down whoever he thinks he can bring down, I also remember him saying before the 2011 election that if Buhari does not win the north would go wild wild west, what a pity all this coming from a man of God ,Politicalpastor, that's why I laugh at Osinbajo when he tries to slander GEJ's administration there's a re percussion for this type of sin here on earth just watch out only time would tell.

Set up all hail apc.

Deceit

Nigerians are wicked people boko haram is busy attacking villages and no one is complaining if it were to be GEJ the would have be screaming foul,just because of religion and tribalism.

Daura President.

Like you pointed out conceding defeat is a rare act in Africa, so why disregard the act or his action, act like this should be promoted to encourage up coming leaders, the root cause of electoral violence in Nigeria stemmed from the fact that Buhari refused to accept defeat in the polls in all the elections contested before winning the 2015 election, Boko haram was empowered by those who would not accept defeat , if you analyse the Nigeria election and political climate from Ya'ardua to Gej you would understand the reason why GEJ conceding defeat is a big deal.

lexy2014:
there's a lot of hate and emotional talk on NL wdoesn't give room 4 mature intellectual discourse. I don't believe in projecting hate or using insults 2 make a point. D election was a contest btw 2 sides. D rules were clear, winner takes all. just like in a football match, d side with d highest score wins. Conceding defeat isn't a made in heaven act, its just rare in africa. GEJ did d right thing. Does that make him great or a legend? I don't think so. If buhari defeats BH, does that make him great, no. He is just doing his job. If he makes d economy work, he is just doing his job. Nothing special

When your preferred candidate lost in 2011 what did he do and say ?when my preferred candidate lost in 2105 what did he do and say? Hateers children of hate, it clearly shows one is civilised and the other isn't.

adanny01:


Looser's consolation.

Can you tell me what happened in Rivers and Akwa Ibom. Was there rigging or not? There were international observers every where in Nigeria covering the elections. How come only Rivers and Akwa Ibom election made rigging headlines? How many pics do you have as prove that there was wide spread under age voting in the north? Can you prove the pics are taken in Nigeria and not Niger, Chad, Ghana or Cameroon? Can you prove the pics was taken in 2016 not 2011, 2007, 2003 or 1999?

You cant say elections was rigged only because your prefered candidate lost. Thats the reason you guys hail Jonathan like a hero he is not with no victory to show for it.

Buhari was rejected in 2011 with over 8.5 million votes to Jonathan, in 2015 Jonathan was rejected by a meager 2.5 million votes which was rigged in favour of Buhari witu cases of children voting in kano etc, so dude get your facts right before you start hating.

Keneking:
Ok...is this nomination contestable? If yes, then he would lose.

Jonathan was rejected by more than 52% of the electorates in March 28, 2015.

Foolishness, pedoph,ile, clap for your self they just legalised it fir you guys to have 11 years old they know GEJ would never accent to such bill, rubbish bills passed and you are happy mind you the last session happen to be GEJ pdp era see you claiming foolish thing goes to show how foolish you are,brain dead indeed.

Sodiumdawg:


With countless more bills passed by legislative arm of Govt in days than in years of GEJ's rule?

Autopilot good oooohhh!

Can't you see you are the myopic one that's brainless and lacks common sense of reasoning,i know you are a foreigner and do not know how this zoo called Nigeria would have been had he not conceded defeat,with the powers at his disposal he would have made things difficult for the common man who has seen enough hell,your leader buhari recognised this fact and applauded his decision yet children of hate like you would never see anything good in his actions, the world knows it and acknowledged it yet you guys are still hating, people like you are the reason why Nigeria is backward today due to your innate hatred for anything good , you are filled with negative energy that's why nothing good would ever come your way,why don't you just say it you are jealous and not happy about the way God is projecting the gentle man.

tiger28:
Nigerians are so mediocre in our actions and thought , that's the reason we are in this quagmire today. How can you propose giving a losing president a NOBEL PRIZE for doing what he is supposed to do?? to step down. Anyone applauding this act is job myopic in their thinking.

Blame the tribalist,even with argbe owing them the voted fr apc whereby states pdp was oweing voted against pdp states like benue etc but they decided to follow tribalism and religion, if they have voted against him it would have sent a strong message to him that the know their rights they rather voted based on sentiments and tribalism they should enjoy it, suffer head, why can't they protest? it shows they like it ,they don't see anything wrong in it.

blonker1:
I want to ask a salient question.Had the governor and his aides received there salaries these months that the civil servants are being owe ? If yes,that is. Sheer wickedness.

Blame the tribalist,even with argbe owing them the voted fr apc whereby states pdp was oweing voted against pdp states like benue etc but they decided to follow tribalism uf they have voted against him it would have sent a strong message to him that the know their rights they rather voted based on sentiments and tribalism they should enjoy it, suffer head.




[qte author=blonker1 post=34475644]I want to ask a salient question.Had the governor and his aides received there salaries these months that the civil servants are being owe ? If yes,that is. Sheer wickedness.[/quote]

Laugh my balls out, suffer head.

I also think because according to them GEJ is an infidel so Buhari can't live in a place which once housed an infidel.

A living legend ,I have no regrets supporting you it was the right thing to do, GEJ I love you, there are leaders, there are rulers, leadership style differs , I always knew you were a charismatic leader not an authoritarian ruler, long live GEJ.

How much is osibanjo really worth to know he had a private resident in asokoro and another one in banna island thus man must be a big thief, corruption personified.

Fear,a sinner runneth when no one chases him, karma.

When Obasanjo used her to get debt relief no one accused her of corruption, just because the children of hate dislike GEJ the extended it to NOI she's above all your families combined none in your entire generation or families put together can reach or surpass her achievements you can only hate so haters go and hug transform.

God bless GEJ.

Bastard,that's why none would ever progress in your family, I know you guys hate each other and probably not a free born , guess you guys were bore into slavery.

olabukola:
I will petition the body to stop this nonsense. *Sigh*

A living legend ,I have no regrets supporting you it was the right thing to do, GEJ I love you, there are leaders, there are rulers, leadership style differs , I always knew you were a charismatic leader not an authoritarian ruler, long live GEJ.

Who is Osibanjo in this society that he can't be locked out lick your wounds bro the deed has been done.

Was this how Ya'ardua ans Goodluck decleared theirs? Nigerians are not fools go and tell your master baba one chance.

And the civil servants are owed salaries bleeped up government of Aregbe Rascal.

"What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things -- especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa." So writes investigative reporter Nick Turse in his latest book, Tomorrow's Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa.

Adapted from a series of articles written for TomDispatch.com from 2012 to late 2014, Tomorrow's Battlefield methodically follows Turse's exploration of the U.S. military's Africa Command, or AFRICOM, a reporting mission that Turse says was continually re-inspired by his subjects' lack of cooperation. "Basically, it was AFRICOM that made me do it. They were really responsible for this book," he told HuffPost in a recent interview.

From the outset of his reporting, Turse faced continual resistance and was refused even the most basic information or access in response to his questions. When asked for a simple tally of U.S. installations, military spokespersons repeatedly emphasized to Turse that the command maintains only one permanent "base," Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti, contradicting documentary evidence of activity and infrastructure on a much larger and rapidly growing scale.

Turse's investigations eventually showed that the U.S. military has been involved in one way or another -- "construction, military exercises, advisory assignments, security cooperation, or training missions" -- with more than 90 percent of Africa's 54 nations. He writes, "While AFRICOM... maintains that the United States has only a 'small footprint' on the continent, following those small footprints across the continent can be a breathtaking task."

Beyond raising the alarm over the growing scale of operations, Turse's book explains how American actions have almost unfailingly resulted in disastrous unforeseen consequences, a pattern that has done little to deter the U.S. military's expansionist zeal. In this conversation, Turse outlines some of those consequences, how the military's efforts to block and undermine his reporting shaped Tomorrow's Battlefied and whether the lessons of recent history or competition with China have any chance of altering the United States' military-first approach to Africa.

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What first drew you to the American military presence in Africa and at what point did you realize that you were on to something significant?

A few years back I asked a few of their public affairs people to answer a few simple questions about what the U.S. military was up to on the continent, the basics of the scale and scope of their involvement. I had started seeing indications of increased U.S. operations. Specifically, I saw the building of a sophisticated logistics network and I know that you don't build a land and sea logistics network to carry supplies all throughout the continent unless you're planning on sending personnel all over the continent. But when I asked, all they talked about was how little they were doing and how light their footprint was. If they'd told me something that sounded roughly like what I was learning through obscure Pentagon documents and DOD publications, I probably would have shrugged and moved on after writing one article.

In your experience, was that level of resistance standard operating procedure for the military, or was there something about your interactions with AFRICOM that stood out above and beyond the normal?

I'm used to the U.S. military trying to freeze me out, but what pushed me over the edge was that after that first article I wrote, the AFRICOM colonel wrote a full rebuttal to my article, and that to me was very telling and out of the ordinary. They didn't just send this to me, they also sent it to The Nation Institute which is our funder, so I took this as a real attempt to undermine my credibility and to get who they assumed were my bosses to get me to back off. That really was what signaled to me that there's an even bigger story than I thought here.

The second article in the book is called "Blowback Central," talk a little about what you mean by that terminology.

Well you know the term blowback is an old term of CIA tradecraft, and historically it referred to when the U.S. would carry out covert operations somewhere in the world and eventually the fruits of these operations would "blow back" on the U.S. and there would be repercussions but American citizens wouldn't recognize it as such because they wouldn't have known what was done in their name with their tax dollars under the radar. When I look at U.S. operations in Africa, I see the same sorts of things going on, the same types of blowback. Because Americans don't pay a lot of attention to what goes on in Africa and because of the way news stories are constructed they often don't provide the context to give you a clue as to exactly how these things work out over a period of months or years.

You know just after 9/11, when the U.S. military looked at Africa, they didn't see much in the way of transnational terror groups. Now, after more than a decade, hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars and many thousands of training missions later, the continent is awash in terror groups, just the opposite thing that they wanted, and this is the type of thing that I'm talking about, this is the blowback we're seeing.

Is there an archetypal example of this sort of thing in Africa?

I think a good example of this in Africa is the U.S. intervention in Libya where we joined a coalition to overthrow Gaddafi. Now I don't think there are a lot of Gaddafi defenders out there, we know that he was in many ways a disaster for his people, but what's resulted in Libya has been catastrophic and it wasn't just Libya that was affected. When Gaddafi fell, these nomadic Tuareg fighters who were shock troops for him loaded his weapons stores and traveled back to their home territory of Mali and began to destabilize that country. Because of that, a U.S.-trained officer in Mali -- the U.S. had pumped tens if not hundreds of millions of dollars into Mali to make it a regional bulwark against terrorism -- overthrew the government there because he felt like he could fight the Tuaregs better. It turned out he wasn't up to the task and then Islamic militants pushed the Tuaregs and his junta back to the point that the U.S. had to back a French and African force to go into Mali to arrest that. They were able to save Mali from falling to the Islamists, but now it's a low-level insurgency and those Tuaregs, the weapons that were taken from Gaddafi, have now spread across the continent. There are fighters from Boko Haram, from several Islamist groups, that got those weapons and have trafficked them to neighboring countries. The Libyan intervention has now destabilized the whole Northwest corner of Africa. This is the type of thing that we see again and again with U.S. military missions in Africa.

Do you think this is largely a case of repeating the mistakes we've made in the Middle East -- not understanding the complexity of these situations before we get involved?

Yeah, I think that's exactly right. There's just not a deep knowledge of who the players are often and what their aims are. And of course the U.S. military, they have one tool in their toolkit which is the hammer. So this is what they bring to bear wherever they see a problem and often it just has the effect of creating even more chaos in the name of fighting terror or creating stability.

Is this inability to reckon with the reality on the ground and the mistakes that we've made just being unwilling to admit defeat or is there something more ideological driving it?

Well it's often difficult to figure this out, you know the Bush administration, they at least had a clear vision. No matter what you thought of it, they had a vision of how they wanted to see the world and, in many cases I think, the way they wanted to run the world. The Obama administration has basically been in a reaction mode for almost the entirety of the administration, they seem to be buffeted by one crisis after another and try to react to it, often in tragic and misguided ways.

Your most recent article from South Sudan covers another case where our actual role in the situation on the ground is pretty obviously and radically different from what's portrayed by government officials in the media.

In this particular article, I talk about the waivers that the Obama administration put in year after year to allow South Sudan to use child soldiers. The idea behind this was that they could keep pumping money into the South Sudanese military to build a strong regional partner, professionalize the military, they were supposed to make it an ethical military, but it was just another crash and burn effort. Instead of getting the military they wanted for South Sudan, they got one that in December 2013 broke down and split across ethnic lines. The force that's still loyal to the government carried out mass atrocities and also began increased recruitment of child soldiers. So everything that the U.S. tried for there was a complete and abject failure.

In one chapter you contrast our military strategy with China's approach on the continent. How do you see that contrast and our competition with China progressing in the long run in Africa?

If you do any kind of travel in Africa, you see that Chinese influence is huge and it's been growing in the last decade at an exponential rate. There are Chinese construction projects everywhere and you can see a real contrast. The U.S. has really pumped its aid money into these various anti-terror efforts and tried to play Whac-A-Mole all across the continent, chasing down terror groups while China has gone the economic route and made inroads all over the continent. Now I wouldn't say that the Chinese approach has been uniformly good for African countries, they have these no-strings-attached policies where labor rights and environmental rights are cast by the wayside and it's strictly dollars and cents, but what they do is provide roads and airports and stadiums, tangible examples of things that African people can see right in front of them. They're pursuing a radically different route than we have, though you know recently it looks like China might be looking to follow our example. They're looking at building a military base in Djibouti where the major U.S. base is, and they found a way under UN auspices to get Chinese troops into South Sudan to protect oil installations, so it's possible that China will run into the same problems, given enough time, but right now the U.S. seems to be sowing more problems for itself as it goes while China reaps economic rewards.

Is there anything on the horizon that could reasonably change the way the U.S. is operating in Africa or is continued expansion of military activity an inevitability?

Yeah, I think expansion is not only the wave of the present but the wave of the future, when AFRICOM became an independent command in 2008, it had about 172 operations -- training exercises and activities. That's one mission every two days. But a couple weeks back I reported that AFRICOM carried out 674 missions last year -- two missions a day, a 300 percent jump and it's been a linear progression over these years. I don't see any indication that they're going to be slowing down any time soon.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-maygers/nick-turse-tomorrows-battlefield_b_7480360.html

Things are getting worse.

bleeped up change

It was gathered that the commissioner was kidnapped at gunpoint yesterday morning in his farm located at Osara, Adavi local government of Kogi State.

Source said the gunmen, about five in number, who came in a Prado Jeep traced the commissioner to his farm.

According to him, the commissioner was in the farm when gunmen emerged from the bush, pointed guns at him and took him away.

He added the motive of the kidnappers was yet to be ascertained as they were yet to contact the family members. The incident has been reported to the police.

Meanwhile, the Kogi State Police Command’s public relations officer, Collins Adebayo, confirmed the news, but could not give detail as they were in meeting on the issue.

He promised to get back to journalist when the details are gathered.

http://www.ritanaija.com/2015/06/01/kogi-state-police-commissioner-mr-saidu-madawki-has-been-kidnapped/

Barely 24 hours after the handing over of the mantle of leadership by the former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso to his Deputy, Abdullahi Ganduje, the pensioners in the state civil service have dragged Mr. Kwankwaso to the Economic and Financial Crime Commission, demanding the repatriation of N2 billion pension money allegedly deposited by the former governor in a failed bank.
The pensioners, in a petition dated May 20, 2015 and signed by one Barrister A.B Bulama Esq, said the pensioners’ trustees had deposited N2billion in Euro Bank Plc, Kano branch, at the urgings of Mr. Kwankwaso.
They said soon after the deposit was made the bank went into liquidation and the former governor refused to follow up for claims.
They asked the EFCC to invite Mr. Kwankwaso to explain why he refused to follow up the case of the N2billion pension fund at the NDIC.
The petitioners noted that Mr. Kwankwaso was not a trustee of their funds and thus lacked the authority to deal with the funds as he liked.
They also queried the continued withholding of their money, about N10billion, by the commissioner of finance and the accountant general.
They said when they began to ask questions, the former governor told them he had purchased three warehouses for them at the Free Trade Zone in Kano.
He also said his housing projects, Amana City, had been transferred to the pension trust fund in lieu of the retained N10 billion.
The petitioners, however, noted that the Mr. Kwankwaso’s actions were illegal and bordered on fraud.
“For this and many more we ask the EFCC to do a thorough job to unravel the fraud done in all issues relating to us,” the pensioners said.
Mr. Kwankwaso could not be reached immediately for this story.




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